Visual Analysis

Visual analysis aims for supporting the verification or falsification of given hypotheses about a dataset visually. This means that users perform a directed search for information. A high degree of interactivity is required here as well. Since hypotheses are given a priori visual analysis techniques should be able to guide the users during the search process. Visual analysis techniques are often tailored to one certain analysis problem (i.e., a limited set of hypotheses).

see also: Visual Exploration, Visual Presentation.

References

• [Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, forthcoming 2006.